Is America Really Great

The tragic reality is countless impoverished people are poor for no other reason than bad luck. Escaping from poverty and reaching the “American Dream” may seem feasible, but it is not. There is a prevailing cycle that links the life of one’s immediate family to the life of him or her and so on and so forth. It is not a hundred percent, of course, but out of the lowest twenty percent, seventy percent of them will not break through past the bottom forty percent (Demos 1). This is a far cry from the seemingly easily obtainable “American Dream” of a few decades ago. So as of right now, the working poor are just spinning their tires as a repercussion of the competitiveness that is so eminent in the country and makes America so great.
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In the same way, due to the celebrity-oriented nature of America, when people from around the world think of the U.S., they think of people such as Miley Cyrus and Jared Fogle. These disgraceful people are not the first thought the surrounding nations should think of when they think of America. The U.S. is supposed to be the beacon of hope in the horizon, not a scandal-ridden Aristocracy. The society makes it hard for a subordinate country to submit or even collaborate with the states. Also, the children in America are looking up to these people and wanting to be “just like them.” Due to the stubborn ignorance of children, parents do not have any control in the matter. Thus, the cycle begins; the children idolize deadbeats, act like the deadbeats, and, in the end, become the deadbeats. While this problem is more focused on the case of Miley Cyrus instead of Jared Fogle, the latter is still precarious. People who are looked up to and put on a pedestal who do something wrong make the wrong seem to be normal. Moreover, if this continues to happen, an action that is seen as wrong, such as what was done by Fogle, may become bearable or even

It seems the Constitutional principle of “no man is above the law” is either no longer taught in prestigious schools or maybe the affluent are too stubborn to listen concept is too difficult for the rich to comprehend. Whichever it might be, the side-effects are apparent and harmful to society. One of the most common way power is misused is when a wealthy corporation directly aids the rich. For example, the CEO of the Fortune 500 Company aforementioned uses his surplus of money to help fund lobbyists who get a law passed and change the tax system to benefit the well-off. The poor and lower-middle-class will not be able to add their own protest to this proposition either due to money constraints unless, of course, they worked together, creating a huge dilemma. Also, studies suggest that the wealthy class is more likely to lie, cheat, and steal than the average impoverished citizen. A study, in particular, is from the University of California, Berkeley, and it included people from over a thousand occupations and a range of sixteen thousand dollars and one hundred and fifty thousand dollar annual income. There were seven completely different tests done, and, unsurprisingly, the results that arose were pointing towards a malicious upper class (CNN